The Technical Co-Founders Handbook
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A presentation I have done many times in APAC about how to find a co-founder and some of my opinions on decisions a technical co-founder must make. This is my opinion, not that of any employer or organisation.
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The Technical Co-Founders Handbook
- 1. Technical Co-Founder Handbook Joseph K Ziegler | @jiyosub | jiyosub YOU’RE IN A STARTUP!
- 2. Summary High level overview for the Head Hacker in a startup
- 3. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 4. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 6. Why even have one? $
- 7. Rule #1 Long term success is impacted by technical prowess
- 9. How do I Find him?
- 10. Rule #2 It’s a numbers game and you have competition
- 11. Motivation
- 12. Rule #3 Nerds are motivated by more than $$$ Idea Validation
- 13. Rule #4 Validate your idea early and cheaply! Static Website Via a Blog Good Old PowerPoint
- 14. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 15. Choosing a Stack
- 16. Choose an OS
- 17. Rule #5 Go Open Source First
- 19. Choose a Language Static | Multiple languages | Mono on Linux | Good Docs & Support | Proprietary | $$$ Static | Multiple languages on the JVM | Good Docs | Big Developer Community | Heavy Frameworks | Oracle? Dynamic | Scientific | Easy | Strong Cloud Support | Scattered Docs & Libs | Light | Single Threaded Dynamic | Easy | Learning Resource | Web Support | Light | Scaling Limits Dynamic | Vast Libraries | Big Developer Community | Long History | Spaghetti Code | Horrible to Awesome Dynamic | New | Skill Reuse | Event Driven | Limited Libraries and Breadth | Smaller Community
- 20. Choose a Language Look at the Developer Community Look at your Problem Space Be Aware of the Future but not Controlled By It
- 21. Rule #6 Pick the Language That Helps You Iterate the Fastest
- 23. Rule #7 Stand on the Shoulders Giants - or - Don’t Re-invent the Wheel if it Works for Now
- 25. Rule #8 Go Hybrid Use SQL for the Freebies and NoSQL for Name / Value Storage
- 27. Rule #9 Cloud First or Go Home
- 28. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 29. Source Control
- 30. Rule #10 Use Distributed Hosted Source Control
- 32. Rule #11 Start Continue Integration Early
- 34. Rule #12 Start Automation Early
- 35. Team Tools
- 36. Rule #13 Use Cheap and Free Things
- 37. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 38. Benefits of the Cloud
- 39. Rule #14 Build for the Cloud Automation & Bootstrapping Loose Coupling Managed Services
- 40. Rule #14 Build for the Cloud Automation & Bootstrapping Loose Coupling Managed Services
- 41. Rule #14 Build for the Cloud Automation & Bootstrapping Loose Coupling Managed Services
- 42. Rule #14 Build for the Cloud Automation & Bootstrapping Loose Coupling Managed Services
- 43. Agenda • Who is this Technical Co-Founder • Choosing a Stack • Development Tools • Design Patterns • Deployment Patterns
- 44. Architecture Alpha Developer Station Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Load Balancer Compute Database Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Development Environment
- 45. Rule #15 Everything is in Source Control
- 46. Architecture Beta Developer Station Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Load Balancer Compute Database Durable Cloud Storage Production Environment Stage & Test Environment Development Environment
- 47. Rule #16 Deploy with the CI Server
- 48. Architecture 1.0 Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Load Balancer Compute Database Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Hot Standby
- 49. Super Secret Rule #16
- 50. Rule #16 The Whole Architecture is the Application…..
- 51. Architecture as the Application Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Version 1 Developer Station
- 52. Architecture as the Application Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Version 1 Version 1.1 Developer Station
- 53. Architecture as the Application Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Version 1.1 Developer Station
- 54. Architecture as the Application Source Control CI Server Durable Cloud Storage Stage & Test Environment Version 1.1 Version 2 Developer Station
- 55. Technical Co-Founder Handbook Joseph K Ziegler | @jiyosub | jiyosub YOU’RE IN A STARTUP! Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- * Why have one at all? * Cost * In-house your expertise : Foresight, Core Competency, Consistency * Agility “As a result, more and more startups begin with a business founder and a technical founder. This is so common that many incoming Stanford MBA students make it their mission to meet their engineering and CS peers for some professional matchmaking. But there’s a more skilful way to go about this.” - Smart Scaling: How to find the right technical cofounder by Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com
- Characteristics of a good TCF * Look up stat: good developer 100x bad developer * Are they flexible about their stack? * Example of a problem, do they fix just the problem, or do they go back and find the reason it was caused and make sure it never happens again? * Passion for being in a startup * Personality fit * Creating the Thing Right vs Creating the Right Thing * Myopic for the solution * Cadence for development * Not working on own idea * Domain Knowledge Good developer is 10x more productive than an average. An average developer is 10x more productive than a poor developer. --Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of 10x
- * Finding him * Hey, I’ve got this great idea for a startup…do you know any developers who might be interested in working with me? * You have to pitch to a co-founder just like an investor * Meetups, entrepreneur events * User groups It’s a numbers game Invest in success Make your pitch different Why you can’t find a co-founder: Hiring in your own image Need for speed
- What's their motivation? ** Idea Space * Co-founders level of commitment * Co-founders domain knowledge and passion Stimulating Technology Chance to Innovate Recognition and Praise Comfortable Surroundings - Global Business Hub
- Idea Validation How to validate idea? * Manually * Blog (Beat the GMAT) * Power Point - Would you buy this
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks “The best lean start-up language allows you to iterate your ideas the fastest with the market. Or, as Eric Ries likes to call it, minimizing total time through the start-up feedback loop:” - The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup by kevindewalt, kevindewalt.com
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks “The best lean start-up language allows you to iterate your ideas the fastest with the market. Or, as Eric Ries likes to call it, minimizing total time through the start-up feedback loop:” - The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup by kevindewalt, kevindewalt.com
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks “The best lean start-up language allows you to iterate your ideas the fastest with the market. Or, as Eric Ries likes to call it, minimizing total time through the start-up feedback loop:” - The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup by kevindewalt, kevindewalt.com
- * Choosing a technical stack * OS * Languages * Frameworks
- Cloud you have PAAS->IAAAS VPS Hardware
- Puppet Chef Fabric
- Biggest benefits of the cloud: Elasticity and Horizontal Scaling
- The Architecture is the Application
- The Architecture is the Application